[WhiskeyRebel]

Mostly a fan. Got into English shows watching "No Honestly" and "Father Dear Father" on the PBS station up north when I was a kid. You know, when there was nothing on the one other channel we could get.

I wish Red Dwarf were still broadcast around here.

Young Ones rules. Up Scumbag!

Rowan Atkinson just has to stand there and exist, and I'll laugh. Hell, I even liked Johnny English.

One thing you notice in contrast between English shows and US shows is that English TV doesn't feel compelled to make the characters sympathetic and the actors desirable. English TV casts look roughly like the collection of people you'd actually see in the situation presented. Let's face it, after a few episodes you could recognize Wendy Richard as somebody you might ask out if you were working in a store with her, but she's not the sort you would fantasize about at a glance. Not exactly aspirational tail.

US TV casts look like a bunch of people who moved to Hollywood because people told them they look good enough to be on TV. It is as though the people producing shows here are terrified that the viewers here will change channels if they don't decide in 250 milliseconds that they would either want to be or want to boff the people they see onscreen.

How oh how can I convert my wife to a Python fan? She will watch Benny Hill and the Three Stooges with me but she draws the line at Monty Python.

I can't agree on The Office. After all the hoopla I tried watching it on BBC America. I recognize what I'm expected to laugh at but it just makes me wince.